AUSTRALIAN NEWS
MAN BITTEN BY SNAKE CALMLY SHOOTS HAND OFF SYDNEY, May 16. Bitten on two fingers by a death adder at Gosford, Charles Louss, aged 19, calmly blew off his hand with a shotgun, wrapped his shattered wrist in a handkerchief and walked a mile to his home. He then drove 14 miles by car to a doctor. The doctor said that, but for Louss's desperate act, the bites would have killed him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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74AUSTRALIAN NEWS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23810, 17 May 1939, Page 9
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